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See also:ASISIUM (mod. See also:Assisi)
, an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Umbria, in a lofty situation about 15 M
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E.S.E. of Perusia
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As an See also:independent community it had already begun to use Latin as well as Umbrian in its See also:inscriptions (for one of these recording the See also:chief magistrates —marones—see C.I.L. xi
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5390)
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It became a See also:municipium in 90 B.C., but, though numerous inscriptions (C.I.L. xi
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5371-5606) testify to its importance in the Imperial See also:period, it is hardly mentioned by our classical authorities
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Scanty traces of the ancient See also:city walls may be seen; within the town the best-preserved See also:building is the so-called See also:temple of See also:Minerva, with six Corinthian columns of travertine, now converted into a See also: |
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